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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Plenty of Vaccine in the Province

Good news on the H1N1 front..........Public Health says they received 44,000 viles this week with 49,000 expected next week. Dr. Eilish Cleary is the Chief Medical Officer of Health and says over the next two weeks, they hope to finish up with the priority groups. Following that, Dr. Cleary hopes by the end of this month or the first week of December, anyone who wants a shot will be able to get one.

To date, 112 people have been hospitalized with ten sick enough to be admitted to the Intensive care Unit. Of all those who are or were in hospital, 56% were under the age of 20 and those in I.C.U. were over 30.